Joelle Jones of DR. HORRIBLE, Janet Evanovich’s TROUBLEMAKER and YOU HAVE KILLED ME does a stunning black-and-white piece as we look at how Captain Marvel lost the right to appear in a comic called “Captain Marvel,” and we learn the tragic fate of the girl who shared Mary Marvel’s name. Also, a guy whose limbs could fall off. It’s that kind of piece.

In one of the stranger pieces I wrote this year, I find myself at a “Soap Superstar Weekend” event with a bunch of CBS soap opera fans (ABC, I would have known mys stuff, or even if Stefano was there!). For space reasons, this had to cut the bit where a cougar stole one hunk’s drinking straw.